Max Burke

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

I think it’s time to post The Flag again

I guess YANDEX is short for Yet ANother Datacenter EXplosion

Oh so now we’re supposed to respect people’s name change request?

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.

I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on the other. ⬇️

My feed is poorer without the sardonic wit of @kenwhite.bsky.social

Exactly right. In our short time on Earth we have no way of knowing whether we will ever get another chance to do the right thing.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

GO JAYS

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

Slightly diminish a band: Pennyback

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...

Wonder if any of the Sharepoint sites hosting the Epstein docs that the FBI is combing through were affected: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... cc: @muellershewrote.com

This is horrifying and heartbreaking. Sending so much love to the Filipino community right now. I can’t imagine how you’re feeling. You deserve to feel safe celebrating your culture. This is devastating. 💔

Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.

Sure sex is good but have you ever written Strom Thurmond out of the record books?

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

1/What the hell?!?! God damn cowards. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is very, very, good at what she does. If you are following me and not her yet, you really need to. But this decision by CTV to capitulate conservative crying certainly exposes a few things.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This should INFURIATE you

Elbows up, Canada.

I think disappearing people who are here legally because the state disagreed with their speech is Bad but I don’t have a law degree so what do I know

By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites." It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

If the Democrats give up on trans people then why should any member of a minority trust them ever again?

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece

It would be a minimal kindness that every member of DOGE spends the rest of their life looking over their shoulder and peering into shadows, terrified of the people whose lives they have ruined.

How it started: We don’t need anything from Canada! How it’s going: • Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum? • Oil too? Seriously? • Potash? So farms need that? • They spend billions in tourism? • They make American cars? • My house is basically Canadian? • WTF, we rely on them for electricity?

In today’s Exercises In Contrasts, Donald Trump is shilling cars on the White House driveway and Mark Carney put all his assets in a blind trust.

Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.

We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

This alone should be grounds for terminating Ontario’s contract with Starlink immediately.